June 30, 2013

42 Years Ago Today

The crew of Soyuz 11 docked with the very first space station (Salyut 1) and stayed in orbit for 23 days, setting a space endurance record before they were forced to cut short their mission due to an electrical fire on the station.

During the re-entry of the Soyuz 11 capsule , there was a loss of radio contact, but the spacecraft landed quite normally in Kazakhstan.

As terrible as this was, it bears remembering that if the boundaries of the future are allowed to be
set by the, the timid, or far worse, those
who
would presume to forbid others from striving for great things...then our future will be a
dark age. The human race is fortunate to have people such as these who will step into the breach and attempt great deeds.